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Sir Bone Funk

Living Life in the Key of Triumph

Collected fiction and poetry of Eddie Tebbe

A
fixture on the New Orleans music scene for years, native son Eddie Tebbe has
attended multiple concerts a night, composed lyrics picked up and recorded by
the likes of George Porter and Paul Sanchez, and made friends with anyone and
everyone in the popular clubs. He has, as he says, felt the funk in his bones.

Music
is Eddie’s way to cope with the triple whammy life has dealt him: born with
cerebral palsy, developed epilepsy as the result of a fall at age 9, and
gradually consumed from his thirties on by Huntington’s disease. Yet he remains
friendly, funny and outrageous as he flashes his famous smile.

Now
at age 50, Eddie is no longer able to write or to stay out late, instead
offering the short stories, a play and his poetry he’s written through the
years to his many loyal friends in this inspiring collection.

Local
writer Colman DeKay puts it well: “Eddie writes with
simplicity, urgency and honesty about the town that he loves. He’s the real
deal – a New Orleanian who, despite personal
setbacks, grabs the city in a gigantic life-affirming hug.“